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Southwick is quietly, or maybe not so quietly, beginning to set the standard for the unusual. From Ryan Dugney going all NASCAR and making a pit stop, to what seemed like the entire GEICO team hitting trees, to Mike McDade becoming an overnight star for helping a fellow rider escape the clutches of his own bike—Southwick provided it all.

While the atypical grabbed the majority of headlines, Southwick also complied with the norm. Even with a pit stop Dungey captured his seventh straight overall after Mike Alessi was unable to capitalize on a rare mistake from the points leader. And the South African sand master, Tyla Rattray, won a moto at Southwick for the third time in his career—albeit in a different class. His second moto win would mark the first career 450 moto win for Rattray.

The 250 Class would also follow the company line, so to speak, as Blake Baggett used his prowess down the stretch in the second moto to wear down Ken Roczen en route to the moto win and the overall. But one story out of the 250 Class was unsual, as Justin Barcia—for the first time in his career—failed to win a moto at Southwick, and in the process lost valuable championship points. The New York native now returns home and finds himself approaching must-win scenarios each weekend to win the title.

A rare mistake from Ryan Dungey in the second moto, which would eventually lead to the KTM rider having to make a pit stop after his gas cap came loose, opened the door for Tyla Rattray to seize his first career 450 moto win. But Dungey wasn’t going to make it easy on the South African, pushing him all the way to the finish. Let’s dig a little deeper to see how the two matched up down the stretch.

You can cleary see that Dungey switched it into another gear after his pit stop, but Rattray was there to match his every move, setting faster laps than the series points leader down the home stretch en route to his first career 450 moto win.

While Blake Baggett was able to capture the overall, extending his points lead in the process, at Southwick, it was GEICO Honda’s Eli Tomac that was the fastest on the day. After crushing the field in moto one, Tomac went down early in moto two. Remarkably, Tomac began to click off laps at a astonishing pace, quickly closing the gap on Baggett and Roczen. Although a late crash would cost Tomac the overall, his lap times were worth comparing to that of Baggett’s and Roczen’s.

The WMX title chase failed to clear itself up at Southwick, and will head to the season finale at Lake Elsinore with three riders separated by 10 points. Ashley Fiolek captured her third straight overall after returning from a concussion in Colorado, and now enters the final round only five points back of leader Jessica Patterson. Meanwhile, Patterson will gladly welcome the break as she is still recovering from a hand injury.